fascism

Fasces, a bundle of rods strapped together around an axe, represented the power of the state in Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

One of the major forms of government of the 20th century is called fascism. The name is derived from the Latin fasces, a symbol of authority in ancient Rome. The fasces was a bundle of rods strapped together around an axe, and it represented the unbreakable power of the state. Fascism, along with Communism (and to some extent, Socialism), holds to the notion that the state is

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